A Selection from the Fathers on Virtue
The essence in every virtue is the one Logos of God - and this can hardly be doubted since the essence of all the virtues is our Lord,...
Excerpts From Fr Sergius Bulgakov: The Power Of The Cross
The cross is the figurative inscription of the Name of God, working miracles and manifesting powers, like the Name of God revealed to...
Excerpts From St John Maximovitch: The Cross, The Preserver Of The Universe
In the prophet Ezekiel (9:6) it is said that when the Angel of the Lord was sent to punish and destroy the sinning people, it was told...
Excerpts From St John Of Damascus: An Oration On The Nativity Of The Holy Theotokos Mary
….Let the whole of creation make festival and sing of the most holy birth-giving of the holy Anna. For she bore for the world an...
Select Sayings Of Abba Poemen From The Sayings Of The Desert Fathers
1. While he was still young, Abba Poemen went one day to an old man to ask him about three thoughts. Having reached the old man, he...
Excerpt From St Gregory Palamas Homily On The Dormition
It is fitting that she, who held Him Who fills all things and is above all things, should herself outstrip all, and become higher than...
Excerpt From St Gregory Palamas Homily I On The Transfiguration
[Christ] possessed the splendor of the divine nature hidden under His flesh. This light, then, is the light of the Godhead, and it is...
Parable of the Talents
There's a story told about a company hiring truck drivers to drive dynamite through the mountains. They brought in the first driver to...
St Nikolai (Velimirovich): On The Gradual Nature Of Spiritual Development
“For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are...
St Gregory Of Nyssa - Excerpts from "On The Beatitudes"
Men, whichever of you longs to have sight of absolute goodness, do not lose hope of ever beholding the object of your desire, when you...
